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Zechariah 1:2
The Lord hath been sore displeased, with a vehement anger, with your fathers, as shown in the overthrow of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Temple, and the exile in Babylon.
The Lord hath been sore displeased, with a vehement anger, with your fathers, as shown in the overthrow of Jerusalem, the destruction of the Temple, and the exile in Babylon.
Verse Zechariah 1:2. _THE LORD HATH BEEN SORE DISPLEASED WITH YOUR FATHERS._] For their ingratitude idolatry, iniquity, and general rebellion....
WROTH WAS THE LORD AGAINST YOUR FATHERS WITH WRATH - o, that is, a wrath which was indeed such, whose greatness he does not further express, but leaves to their memories to supply. Cyril: “Seest thou...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS 1. THE NIGHT VISIONS CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Zechariah 1:1) _ 2. The first night vision (Zechariah 1:7) 3. The second night vision (Zechariah 1:18)...
This rebuke (see above, p. 575) seems inconsistent with a date five weeks or more after work had been begun at the Temple and at least ten days after the prophecy in Haggai 2:1. The clumsy handiwork o...
SORE DISPLEASED. Hebrew displeased with. displeasure. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. See note on Genesis 26:28. YOUR FATHERS. Compare verses: Zechariah 1:4; Zechariah 1:6,...
The call to Repentance. Zechariah's first message is one of warning, by the example of their fathers and the earlier prophets. On their fathers, as they well knew, the displeasure of Almighty God had...
_sore displeased_ Lit. DISPLEASED WITH DISPLEASURE. The addition of the noun serves to give emphasis to the verb. Comp. Luke 22:15. What a commentary on this "sore displeasure" was the scene on which...
CHAPTER XXVI INTRODUCTION TO SECTION I Zechariah 1:1-6 RV. In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the proph...
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. THE LORD HATH BEEN SORE DISPLEASED WITH YOUR FATHERS. God fulfilled His threats against your fathers; beware, then, lest by disregarding his vo...
LESSONS FROM THE PAST. THE FIRST AND SECOND VISIONS 1-6. The Prophet's message. He calls the people to repentance. 8-17. The First Vision: The Divine Messengers ever watching over the affairs of the...
GOD REMEMBERS HIS PROMISES ZECHARIAH _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ‘The *prophet (Zechariah) said that these events would happen. And these events did happen.’ (Matthew 21:4) (A *prophet tells people what G...
(1-6) On the four-and-twentieth day of the sixth mouth of the second year (B.C. 520) of Darius Hystaspis, the re-building of the Temple had been resumed (Haggai 1:15); and in the seventh month, on the...
YOUR FATHERS. — This verse contains the word of the Lord addressed directly to and through the prophet, who is included among those addressed in the pronoun “_your_ fathers.” It gives the ground on wh...
קָצַ֧ף יְהוָ֛ה עַל ־אֲבֹֽותֵיכֶ֖ם קָֽצֶף׃...
ZECHARIAH THE PROPHET Zechariah 1:1; Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14 ZECHARIAH is one of the prophets whose personality as distinguished from their message exerts some degree of fascination on the student. This...
A VISION OF PARDON AND RESTORATION Zechariah 1:1-17 Zechariah does not slur over the sins of the past, but lays stress on the divine forgiveness. His only fear is lest God should call in vain, and th...
About a month after Haggai's second message, in which he had encouraged the people who were in danger of being disheartened by the memory of the past, Zechariah uttered his first prophetic word. He ga...
The LORD hath been (c) sore displeased with your fathers. (c) He speaks this to make them afraid of God's judgments, so that they should not provoke him as their fathers had done, whom he so grievous...
_Angry, as he has severely chastised them. (Calmet)_...
"The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. (3) Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LOR...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Zechariah was plainly a contemporary of Haggai. Like him he dates his prophecies from the second imperial power of the Gentiles; but he goes a great deal far...
_Angry was Jehovah with anger against your fathers _(10) The Prophet here refers to the severity of the punishment with which the Jews had been visited, in order that posterity might know that God, wh...
The Spirit of God begins with an exhortation, founded on the proofs that the history of the people supplied of the manner in which the word of the prophets had taken hold of them. Jehovah's displeasur...
THE LORD HATH BEEN SORE DISPLEASED WITH YOUR FATHERS. Who lived before and at the time of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and which was manifest by their captivity; all which were occasioned...
The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Ver. 2. _The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers_] Heb. He hath boiled against your fathers with foaming anger, with height of heat....
_In the eighth month_ This month, according to that reckoning which begins the year with the month Abib, or Nisan, Exodus 12:2, falls in with the latter part of our October, and the beginning of Novem...
GOD'S CALL TO RETURN TO HIM (vv. 1-6) Zechariah's name means "Jehovah remembers." He was the son of Berechiah ("Jehovah blesses") who was the son of Iddo ("the appointed time"). Israel had long been...
SORE DISPLEASED: _ Heb._ with displeasure...
1-6 God's almighty power and sovereign dominion, should engage and encourage sinners to repent and turn to Him. It is very desirable to have the Lord of hosts for our friend, and very dreadful to hav...
THE LORD, the holy, the mighty One, your God, the just Governor of the world, hath been sore displeased; so long provoked, that his displeasure at last enkindled within his breast, and broke out into...
Zechariah 1:2 LORD H3068 very H7110 angry H7107 (H8804) fathers H1 Lord - 2 Kings 22:16-17,...
GOD'S CALL TO THE PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HIM AND LIVE IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS DEMANDS - THE OFFER OF A NEW BEGINNING (ZECHARIAH 1:1). Zechariah is the prophet of the new beginning, but as is always so with...
CONTENTS: Zechariah's symbolic visions, warning of Jehovah's dispreasure with the nations. CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Zechariah. CONCLUSION: The judgments of God which those who went before us were un...
Zechariah 1:1. _Zechariah;_ that is, the memory of God; a name which might seem prophetic, for the Lord remembered his people while yet in Babylon. He was contemporary with Haggai, and acted in concer...
_The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers _ A CALL TO REPENTANCE The prophet being to carry comfortable tidings to this people, begins with the doctrine of repentance, inviting them not t...
ZECHARIAH—NOTE ON ZECHARIAH 1:1 Oracles and Visions. Zechariah’s sequence of visions in Zechariah 1:7 is interrupted by an oracle of restoration ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] ZECHARIAH 1:2. SORE] Lit. displeased with displeasure, wrath not common, whose greatness is given as a ground for their return. ZECHARIAH 1:3. THEREFORE] Lit. and thou sayest, or mus...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1-6:15 Part I. A SERIES OF EIGHT VISIONS, AND A SYMBOLICAL ACTION. ZECHARIAH 1:1 § 1. _Title of the book, and author. _THE EIGHTH MONTH. This was called Bul before the Captivit
Shall we tonight now get into our study in the book of Zechariah beginning with chapter 1. Now if you remember when we studied the book of Haggai last week, Haggai was dating his prophesies in the sec...
2 Chronicles 36:13; 2 Kings 22:16; 2 Kings 22:17; 2 Kings 22:19;...
THE MAN AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES Zechariah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The visions have to do primarily with God's dealings with His chosen people Israel. They will, however, be full of lessons for the sai...